Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how well they've been at keeping up-to-date?
I just did a "yum list extras" and it listed items that were listed in Wednesday's rawhide report. At times, I've even resorted to tcpdumping yum's run to capture the requested host names so I could assign them 127.0.0.2 in my /etc/hosts file, just so I could apply development updates that were several days old.
-Paul
Quoting Paul Dickson paul@permanentmail.com:
Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how well they've been at keeping up-to-date?
Yeah, I've been emailing the guys who look after mirror.pacific.net.au and they've had trouble keeping up. Usually the fedora main site takes too long and times out :(
I just did a "yum list extras" and it listed items that were listed in Wednesday's rawhide report. At times, I've even resorted to tcpdumping yum's run to capture the requested host names so I could assign them 127.0.0.2 in my /etc/hosts file, just so I could apply development updates that were several days old.
Agreed :|
On 9/22/06, Paul Dickson paul@permanentmail.com wrote:
Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how well they've been at keeping up-to-date?
One data point: yesterday morning (German time), I actually *wanted* to find an out-of-date mirror so that I could get the previous version of eclipse. At that time, all of the mirrors in the mirrorlist had the most recent eclipse (released yesterday) except for distro.ibiblio.org. In fact, as of today, that mirror still doesn't appear to have been updated since Tuesday or so; haven't checked the other ones.
MEF
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:20:57 +0200, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
On 9/22/06, Paul Dickson paul@permanentmail.com wrote:
Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how well they've been at keeping up-to-date?
One data point: yesterday morning (German time), I actually *wanted* to find an out-of-date mirror so that I could get the previous version of eclipse. At that time, all of the mirrors in the mirrorlist had the most recent eclipse (released yesterday) except for distro.ibiblio.org. In fact, as of today, that mirror still doesn't appear to have been updated since Tuesday or so; haven't checked the other ones.
And that's the hosts that yum gets when it does:
$ curl "http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386" # repo = rawhide country = US arch = i386 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/developm...
-Paul
Paul Dickson wrote:
Has anyone done any tracking of the fedora-development mirrors to see how well they've been at keeping up-to-date?
I just did a "yum list extras" and it listed items that were listed in Wednesday's rawhide report. At times, I've even resorted to tcpdumping yum's run to capture the requested host names so I could assign them 127.0.0.2 in my /etc/hosts file, just so I could apply development updates that were several days old.
-Paul
It would be really nice if there were some good, universal and simple way to see how updated a site mirror is.
One approach that I find to be working well is what debian is suggesting for their mirrors ( http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror ). Not only does this "trace method" provide info on when the mirror was last sync'ed, it also shows the "route" of the mirroring, i.e. what mirror this mirror mirrors from (confusing yet true :o)).
Although this does not sort the actual problem of the stale mirrors, it will give people an easy way to monitor their own (local?) mirrors and perhaps even allow people to select a few often-updated near-by mirrors, instead of getting packages from a stale mirror across the ocean.
/Thomas